Tokyo Electric Power Company inspected the inside of the No.1 reactor building on Friday with a remote-controlled robot.

TEPCO said it found that steam was rising from a crevice in the floor, and that extremely high radiation of 3,000 to 4,000 millisieverts per hour was measured around the area. The radiation is believed to be the highest detected in the air at the plant.

TEPCO says the steam is likely coming from water at a temperature of 50° Celsius [122° F] that has accumulated in the basement of the reactor building.

TEPCO had to send a robot in to reactor #1 on Friday take video – did you realize humans still can’t get near this thing?

A lot of radioactive water has already made it into the ocean, contaminating seawater and wildlife and probably destroying the fishing industry of northeastern Japan for decades.

But there is even more radioactive water – 28 million gallons – stored at Fukushima. And with heavy rains recently hitting the region, TEPCO officials are concerned that could overflow within the next few weeks.

This situation is nowhere near being “under control”, and there’s really no end in sight.

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